Beijing Project Launch
August 20, 2005
25000 Cultural Transmission Center
Artists
Iain Mott
Ding Jie
As part of the Long March Residency Program
Zhong Shuo is a sound installation project developed and
initiated by Australian sound artist Iain Mott. The work
is realized as part of the Long March Residency Program,
and acts as a system of independent sound installations
for the collecting and telling of stories that focuses on
the rapid force of change occuring in China. The exhibition
at the Long March Space is in collaboration with Beijing
visual artist Ding Jie, and marks the first stage of what
will ultimately be a series of installations in Beijing,
Kunming, and a third locations elsewhere on the route of
the Long March which will be connected to each other via
the internet.
Each installation will pose a question to visitors, asking
them to tell a story of their experiences of change. In
Beijing, Ding Jie's design establishes a gently ironic environment
for public interaction. Created in the form of a Chinese
garden, a kiosk houses a telephone for contributing stories
and an adjoining rock-pool plays host to a small school
of goldfish and water-plants. Hidden away in the rocks and
shrubs is a loudspeaker, which plays a steady stream of
stories that have been automatically recorded and edited
by a computer. This sound, in addition to the voices, includes
ambient sound recordings collected locally and is edited
in the style of radio documentary.
Once the other installations have been established, stories
will be shared between sites by way of networking. In this
way, visitors will be able to reflect on varying perspectives
on change. Each installation will share copies of the stories
collected remotely and these will be edited together mixing
both dialects and points of view. Additionally, the sounds
played by the installations will be streamed to the web
as internet radio, giving 24 hour access to Chinese speakers
both nationally and internationally. Listen in from starting
August 20 at
www.longmarchspace.com or www.reverberant.com/cw
Zhong Shuo has been made possible by Iain Mott's Australia
China Council Arts Fellowship which was brokered by Asialink.
The project has received additional sponsorship by the Australian
Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding
and advisory body. Other generous support has been received
from MAAP, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific.
Chongqing Project Launch
October 10,2005
Artist
Iain Mott
Iain Mott ¡°Zhong Shuo¡± ¨C Chongqing Launch
The second installation of ¡°Zhong Shuo¡±, an interactive
sound installation project by Australian sound artist Iain
Mott was launched on 10 October 2005 at the bustling Chongqing
Planning Exhibition Gallery at Chaotianmen Square, Chongqing.
The Chongqing installation was made working with a local
Sichuan artist group named Li Chuan Group (Li Chuan, Li
Yong, and Ren Qian) and was made using bamboo in the traditional
southern Chinese style. The work is realized as part of
the Long March Residency Program, and acts as a system of
independent sound installations for the collecting and telling
of stories that focuses on the rapid force of change occuring
in China.
Connecting via internet, the Chongqing installation both
imported and transferred stories to the first site in Beijing
made in collaboration with artist Ding Jie. Stage one of
the project has been awarded third prize in the UNESCO Digital
Arts Award 2005 - City and Creative Media.
Additionally, the sounds played by the installations will
be streamed to the web as internet radio, giving 24 hour
access to Chinese speakers both nationally and internationally.
Listen in from starting August 20 at www.longmarchspace.com
or www.reverberant.com/cw
Zhong Shuo has been made possible by Iain Mott's Australia
China Council Arts Fellowship which was brokered by Asialink.
The project has received additional sponsorship by the Australian
Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding
and advisory body. Other generous support has been received
from MAAP, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific.
For more information please contact
The Long March
25000 Cultural Transmission Center
Mailbox 8503
Jiuxianqiao Rd #4
Beijing, P.R.China 100015
lm@longmarchspace.com
www.longmarchspace.com
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